I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.

She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway.

If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective.What changed my perspective, was her.

You don't learn anything just by reading books.You learn only by receiving blows.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.

Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

I have to say, that I am delighted that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton month after month after month seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated.

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

I've never wanted to be a cage fighter myself, but I definitely do enjoy the entertainment of it.

I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.